{"id":62,"date":"2009-12-30T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2009\/12\/favorite-album-of-2009-the-bright-mississippi.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:07:18","slug":"favorite-album-of-2009-the-bright-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/12\/favorite-album-of-2009-the-bright-mississippi.html","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Jazz Album of 2009:  The Bright Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazztheologian.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c63c953ef0120a7903fd8970b-pi\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"float: right; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ToussaintAllen_TheBrightMississippi_180g_1\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c63c953ef0120a7903fd8970b \" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazztheologian.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c63c953ef0120a7903fd8970b-120pi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; \" title=\"ToussaintAllen_TheBrightMississippi_180g_1\" \/><\/a> <br \/>I can&#39;t stop listening to Allen Toussaint&#39;s, &quot;The Bright Mississippi.&quot; &#0160;If you only buy one jazz album from 2009 this is it. &#0160;Toussaint, who is mostly known as an R &amp; B pianist, is joined by Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone), Nicholas Payton (trumpet) in this album that is soon to be a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Nominated for a Grammy as Best Instrumental Jazz Album, The Bright Mississippi, blends New Orleans swing, blues and soul in a way that will delight any jazz fan while not out of reach for jazz dabblers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"asset asset-video\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\"><object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a4VKMkVF0P8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a4VKMkVF0P8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" \/><\/object><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#39;t stop listening to Allen Toussaint&#39;s, &quot;The Bright Mississippi.&quot; &#0160;If you only buy one jazz album from 2009 this is it. &#0160;Toussaint, who is mostly known as an R &amp; B pianist, is joined by Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone), Nicholas Payton (trumpet) in this album that is soon to be a classic. 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